How do I display an image in a Picturebox with a User Input URL?

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Having a bit of trouble getting started on making a simple HTTP image browser. I prompt the user for a URL for an image, and then click a button and display the image in a picturebox. I'm used to writing console applications, and am brand new to the Windows Forms commands, which is why I'm looking for some help.

**In addition, but not necessary, is the inclusion of a status code of the image, as well as associated headers that are returned by googles web server, which are displayed in textboxes. Sorry if this is too vague, I am just completely lost, and anything would help. Thanks.

Posted 13-Apr-15 13:19pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 13-Apr-15 20:16pm

What could be your problem here? What have you tried so far?
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-04-13T14:16:00

To get an image from HTTP, you need to download it. You don't even need to download it to temporary file (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path.gettempfilename%28v=vs.110%29.aspx), as you can read the image to some stream.
Please see all the methods System.Net.WebClient.Download*:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webclient%28v=vs.110%29.aspx.

So, as you can see, not only you can download image to a temporary file, you can also download it to memory, to read the image directly from memory stream. However, this is not the best way.

Better yet, you can use the class System.Net.HttpWebRequest, get an HTTP response and open the response stream, to read the image from: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest%28v=vs.110%29.aspx.

From the stream, you can read the image: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.image.fromstream%28v=vs.110%29.aspx.

Finally, you can assign the image you read to the property PictureBox.Image: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.picturebox.image%28v=vs.110%29.aspx.

—SA